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I just installed OpenMW and Morrowind (via steam) last night and am having a minor issue (using Linux Mint 19.1).

The Morrowind files are only visible after starting Steam, and each time I start Steam, the files are in a different location, such as:
/proc/5022/cwd/steamapps/common/Morrowind/Data Files

So every time I start the game the MW file location is different because the proc folder changes each time so OpenMW can't find the MW files. I need to locate the current proc folder with them via the Wizard each time I start the game.

Is there a way to avoid this? Or is it just what happens when you install MW via Steam?

Sounds like something is pretty messed up with Steam. On Linux, Steam should install files into ~/.steam/steam/SteamApps/common/Morrowind/Data Files, rather than the process's current working directory. Are you overriding Steam's config/data path? How did you install and how are you running Steam?

From what I can recall (this is my first try at using Steam as well), I went to steam and hit the Install Steam button. But, yes, ~/.steam/steam/steamapps folder doesn't have anything in it regarding morrowind.

Once I had steam installed, it wouldn't let me install MW, so I looked up downloading Windows games with Linux STeam and fuond this: https://itsfoss.com/steam-play/ so I went into Steam Settings, turned on the Steam Beta to get Steam Stream and selected "Enable Steam Play for all other titles" . I assume that maybe this is part of the problem, but I was unable to get it to install MW at all before I did this.